Another step towards Elm 1.0

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Elm is on a faster release cycle now, and 0.19.3 is out today. The post also has a rough roadmap of what to expect for the next few Elm releases.

How I would wish to have no overhead type aliases in Java…

I’m happy to see Elm evolving well like this!

Well, this is interesting. I think full stack Elm + Acadia is an interesting proposition. It’d be particularly interesting if the backend could target Go, Rust, or BEAM or something with better concurrency and parallelism than Node.

> particularly interesting if the backend could target Go, Rust

A project in development (with heavy Claude assist) might be worth looking at. Elm language, multiple targets (server side/SSE, SPA, desktop, mobile, TUI, CLI), Go FFI, DB integration (SQLite/PG), plus lots of other libs. A Rust language compiler writes a Go runtime code, single executable.

I'm an old-timer and somewhat skeptical of AI generated code but has caught my interest. I've run through the examples, most seem to work as intended.

https://sky-lang.org/

Too little, too late. Most have moved on from Elm years ago, including me, after having been burned by their holier-than-thou decisions regarding custom JS escape hatches.

that's such ancient history now :)

Elm hasn't changed since then so still relevant, and even then people remember being burned. In the days of LLMs especially there is no need to use subpar languages.

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